Good biosecurity is the key to preventing the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus from spreading.

["The FSA will provide notification to landowners that will include the base and yield information of record as of Oct. 1, 2013. It will be up to landowners to decide whether any reallocating or updating is to their advantage.", ""]

Never enter a bin when unloading grain or breaking up a mass of grain.

For crop producers, the primary decision will be to choose the Agricultural Risk Coverage option or the Price Loss Coverage option.

If a consumer does not care for a particular food, there are almost always plenty of alternatives, and many consumers have the income to pursue those alternatives.

The single biggest change is the elimination of direct payments to farmers

Ron Haugen, NDSU Extension Service farm economist, has some items to note for your 2013 income tax preparation.

National Hard Spring Wheat Show has taken on a different look this year with the incorporation of the Best of the Best program.

The rising popularity of chicken wings is an interesting success story and also an interesting lesson in economics.

The 2013 survey summarizes more than 4,800 reports from farmers and ranchers, aerial sprayers, elevators, custom harvesters and other custom operators.

Some grain may have gone into storage last fall at higher than recommended moisture contents.

These planning prices can be used for preparing annual enterprise budgets and annual whole-farm cash flow projections.

The NDSU Extension Service is celebrating 100 years in 2014.

There are a multitude of factors impacting the shipping market. Major factors include strong growth for several of the major commodity segments, with the growth in Bakken oil and crop shipments being the most notable.

The program uses the direct costs and yields from the 2014 projected crop budgets for nine regions of North Dakota.

Because of H. Roald Lund’s outstanding leadership in agricultural research and academics at NDSU, the name of the atrium in Loftsgard Hall was changed to the H.R. Lund Atrium.

However, producers may want to be more aggressive than normal in forward-pricing crops that provide acceptable profit.

These are soybean educational meetings with current research-based information that can help producers with soybean production decisions for the 2014 growing season.

Through workshops, participants will learn how to analyze what they need and want from health-care providers, compare plans, calculate how health insurance will affect their financial budgets, and apply the information and knowledge gained to make a smart health insurance choice.

The USDA market information and outlook forecasts make an easy target for marketing analysts and farmers because they often question and sometimes criticize the information contained in key reports. However, we often do not think about what might happen if this information was not available “free of charge” to the general public.

Elgin-ND’s attributes are yield, quality and disease protection.

There is a lack of consensus among economists on the impact trade liberalization has on technical efficiency.

Farm gross cash revenue has more than doubled during the past 10 years.

Farmers have diversified their crop selections to reduce the risk of diseases, pests and price volatility.

The podcasts feature agricultural topics ranging from rangeland management to crop prices.

Weigh the risk of winter injury against the need for forage when deciding whether to harvest alfalfa in the fall.

Try to harvest as much of the crop as possible before its moisture level drops below 11 percent.

Fraudsters are very effective at reaching and enticing vulnerable populations into turning over their money.

Moisture content and maturity can vary greatly across fields.